Sogdiana : state of the art and research in progress

Programme 

July 2

Final Bronze – Earliest Iron Age 

9H00-9H30
Lynne Rouse, German Archaeological Institute
Connecting the Dots: the site of Kimirek-kum 1 and the complicated Bronze-Iron Age transition in Central Asia

9H30-10H00  
Johanna Lhuillier, CNRS UMR 5133 Archéorient 
Current Research in the Pashkurt Valley, southern Uzbekistan: new sites and pathways of connectivity during the Final Bronze Age – Early Iron Age

10H-10H30 : Questions & Answers

Antiquity (750 BCE – 200 CE) 

11H-11H30  
Mariana Castro, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World – New York University 
Archaeological and Archaeometric Research on Turquoise from the Inner Kyzylkum

11H30-12H00  
Sören W. Stark, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World – New York University; Djamal K. Mirzaakhmedov and Sirodj Dj. Mirzaakhmedov, Institute of Archaeology – Cultural Heritage Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan; Zachary W. Silvia, Joukowsky 
Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World – Brown University
New Archaeological Data on Bukhara and its Oasis Hinterland during Antiquity (ca. 750 BCE- A.D. 100)

12H00-12H30 : Questions & Answers

12H30-14H00 : Lunch Break
 

Antiquity (750 BCE – 200 CE) 

14H-14H30 
Anvar Kh. Atakhodjaev, Institute of Archaeology – Cultural Heritage Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan; Aleksandr I. Naymark, Hofstra University
Finds of Greek, Cilician, Phoenician, and Hellenistic Coins in the Bukharan Oasis 

14H30-15H 
Ladislav Stančo, Charles University
Military Installations in the Bactro-Sogdian Borderlands in the 3rd-2nd Centuries BC: state of research

15H-15H30  
Aleksandr Naymark, Hofstra University 
Sogdian Culture of the 1st Century CE According to Numismatic Data.

15H30-16H15 : Questions & Answers
 

Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 – 750 CE) 

16H45-17H15 
Asan Torgoev, State Hermitage Museum
Problems of the Formation of the Culture of Bukharan Sogd during the 3rd-5th Centuries A.D.

17H15-17H45 
Andrey Omel’chenko, State Hermitage Museum
Studies of the Bukhara Archaeological Expedition at the Fire Temple of Paikend: new data

17H45-18H15 : Questions & Answers

Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 – 750 CE) 

9H-9H30 
Muminkhan Saidov, Institute of Archaeology – Cultural Heritage Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Preliminary Results of the Study of the Kyzlartepa

9H30-10H00 [in Russian, with translation]:
Alisher Sandibaev, Institute of Archaeology – Cultural Heritage Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Kuldor-tepa and Kurgon-tepa: two newly discovered temples of the Early Medieval period in Central Sogdiana

10H-10H30 
Michael Shenkar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
New Material on Late Sogdian History, Art, and Religion from the Excavations at Sanjar-Shah

10H30-11H : Questions & Answers

11H30-12H00 
Vikentyi Parshuto, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World – New York University
A Border Crossing Point in Late Antique Sogdiana – Early Medieval Soghd.

12H-12H30  
Shujing Wang, Peking University
A Preliminary Study on the Archaeological Contexts of the Sogdian Writings from the Burials in Eastern Central Asia

12H30-13H15 : Questions & Answers

13H15- 14H45 : Lunch Break

Pre-Mongol Middle Ages (750 – 1200 CE) 

14H45 – 15H15  
Nadine Schibille, CNRS Centre Ernest-Babelon
Changing Landscapes of Glass Production during the Early Islamic Period 

15H15 – 15H45  
Viola Allegranzi, Institute of Iranian Studies – Austrian Academy of Sciences
Shaping the Islamic Space in Medieval Bukhara and Samarkand : a fresh look at architectural inscriptions

15H45 – 16H15  
Yury Karev, CNRS UMR 8546 AOROC
In Search of the Fortress of al-Muqannaʽ : surveys in the Hissar mountains 

16H15 – 17H00 : Questions & Answers